Recliner rester chair with projectible legrest and headrest, and hardware therefor

Claim 1

Hardware for a chair having an arm, comprising body supporting menas, a mounting plate adapted to be fixed relative to the arm of the chair, linkage connecting said mounting plate with said body supporting means to move said body supporting means rearwardly and to swing the front end of said body supporting means upwardly and its rear end downwardly, relative to the mounting plate from an upright position to a T.V. position; and to move said means from said T.V. position to a fully reclined position; from said fully reclined position back to said T.V. position and from said T.V. position back to said upright position, said body supporting means comprising a seat link and backrest mounting means, a lever pivoted immediately the ends thereof to said backrest mounting means, and having a forwardly extending arm and a rearwardly extending arm, in the upright position of said chair, a headrest actuator link pivoted at its lower end to said mounting plate at a point disposed below the body supporting means in the upright position of said means and pivoted at its upper end to said rearwardly extending arm, and extending upwardly and rearwardly from its pivotal connection to the mounting plate in said upright position, a connecting link pivoted at its lower end to the forwardly extending arm, in said upright position, a headrest bracket, an idler link pivotally connected to the upper end of said headrest bracket and to the upper end of said backrest mounting means, a headrest drive link pivotally connected to the lower end of said headrest bracket and to said backrest mounting means, below the upper end of the latter, and the upper end of said connecting link being pivotally connected to said headrest drive link between the pivoted ends of the latter.